American Fibertek CX-6p-PoE - Manual (Page 21)

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that a local contact will cause an aux out to be set or cleared until some other trigger
clears or sets that aux output.
The permitted targets of aux contact actions to be taken in response to local alarms are
any CX-6p-PoE devices, or any other compatible AFI devices such as C10 Commander
devices, on the same network as the CX-6p-PoE. Up to two independent actions can be
taken by a CX-6p-PoE in response to a local alarm condition.
Local actions – where a local alarm condition is set to activate an aux contact output on
the same local unit – will be taken immediately. Remote actions – where a local alarm
condition is set to trigger an aux contact on another unit – are stored in a queue and
acted on sequentially. The CX-6p-PoE will for each queued action attempt to open a
connection to the target device and send it a command to take the set aux output action.
If it fails to connect, or fails to get a confirmation response from the target device, it will
retry the action after a 5 second delay. The CX-6p-PoE will attempt to take an action 15
times before abandoning it.
The user may also set up to two messages to be sent to specified IP addresses for each
alarm input. Separate messages can be specified for alarm detection and alarm
clearing.
The CX-6p-PoE will also send messages to up to four Event Servers (that have drivers
for the CXB-6p-PoE such as Pilot Software) on alarm input change, as well as periodic
updates of all alarm and aux status. These messages can trigger events in the CMS
Pilot Software.
Aux outputs
The CX-6p-PoE makes four aux contact outputs available to devices on the network.
Any device on the network can connect to a port on the CX-6p-PoE and with a properly
formatted and authenticated message signal the CX-6p-PoE to trigger one of those
output ports to change state. The CX-6p-PoE will verify that the indicated aux output did
in fact change state and will respond to the device which sent the message to confirm.
The CX-6p-PoE ’s aux outputs can accept state change commands from any number of
sources.
The CX-6p-PoE outputs are controlled by mechanically latching relays. Once an output
has been commanded to a specific state it will retain that state until commanded
otherwise, even if power to the unit is lost. The user can set through the configuration
web page the behavior for the contacts to take when power applied to the unit after a
power outage. The output can be configured to switch on or switch off. Switching off is
the default condition. The contact will turn off on power loss, this cannot be changed.
The aux output can also be manually controlled by the user through the configuration
web page. The web page will indicate the current state of the aux output and permit the
user to change that state.
The CX-6p-PoE will also send messages to up to four Pilot servers on aux contact
output change, as well as periodic updates of all alarm and aux status. These
messages can trigger events in the CMS Pilot Software.